HUMANE RELIGION

A Christian Ministry for Humans, Animals and the Environment

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Publisher's Statement March - April 1998 Issue

Even among those who support the aims of various social justice issues,
the question of animal rights is often treated as a non-issue, or as an
injustice that must be eradicated—but not just now. Those who think this way
believe that the plight of animals can be addressed only when racism, war,
sexism—and a thousand other societal ills—have been eradicated. And they
view those who currently devote themselves to animal welfare as draining
energy and resources from other, more important causes. But
animals are among the least powerful and most abused of God’s creatures. And
those who are tempted to believe that the men and women who labor on their
behalf are doing work that is less important than their own, might
reconsider. Perhaps they should judge the value of what is being done by the
amount of compassion and love these activists bring into the world, rather
than measuring what is being done by their own priorities. They might also
consider that those who have been called to work for the animals understand
that a world which condemns their abuse—refusing to treat any of God’s
creatures as utilitarian objects—is a world in which no human being will
ever be abused as the means to an end. HUMANE RELIGION is committed to
publishing articles that will nurture and support those who have been called
to be part of the spiritual evolution that is manifesting itself among those
who understand that love and compassion must be the hallmark of our
relationship with all God’s creatures.

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